Your work has an English of its own, and there is nowhere to buy it ready-made
Why this is for you
Your industry, your product, your processes, your counterparties. Words your people use every day and that are in no textbook. Usually this vocabulary is nowhere collected in full: it is spread across heads, correspondence and an old glossary file, and every new person has it explained to them from scratch.
KYW lets you collect it once and hand it out as a link – and then makes sure the terms do not fade for the people who have already been through them.
Packs by area of work
There is no need to split the company dictionary into several: it is one, and the areas of work are separated by tags. The unit you hand out is a pack – through it a person gets exactly the slice of vocabulary they need.
A logistics manager does not need the product interface terms, and a new hire does not need the whole glossary in their first week. That is why packs are built for particular people and particular tasks, not “for the staff” in general.
“Packs” → “My packs”
Supply and contracts
B2logisticslegal
Terms from our correspondence with suppliers and from our contracts.
15 words· with a textmine
Product: interface and releases
B1product
What we call the parts of the product – so that emails and tickets say the same thing.
40 wordsmine
Writing to clients
B1email
Phrases for letters: to confirm, to clarify, to decline, to ask for an extension.
28 words· with a textmine
Onboarding: the first week
A2B1basics
The minimum with which a new person can read our documentation and tickets.
22 wordsmine
The “mine” badge tells the packs you built from the ones you took from others.
How to build the company dictionary
The source is what you have already written: documentation, contracts, working correspondence, instructions, a glossary in a spreadsheet.
A pack is built in one form: “Packs” → “My own pack”. Its terms do not have to be in your dictionary – they can be brought in as a file, without adding anything to yourself.
Open “Packs” → “My own pack” and copy the prompt in the “Take the format” step.
Give it to a chatbot together with the document: an instruction, a contract, correspondence, the old glossary.
In the “Bring the pack” step drop the answer in as a file – JSON, TXT or MD. JSON brings the whole pack; a line-by-line file carries the words only and the rest is filled in by hand. A finished glossary from a spreadsheet is loaded here too.
Fill in the language, the title and the tags. The text is optional, but with it the terms are seen at work rather than in a column: a piece of an instruction, a letter or a contract.
Press “Create the pack”.
If you need those terms yourself, add them through “Add” – then in the “Words of the pack” field you can pick them straight from the dictionary, by search or with the “Select everything found” button.
How to hand it to the team
The pack travels as a link, and publishing it for that is not needed: it goes into the shared library by a separate button, and without it exactly the people you gave the address to will see it. No company account, no invitations to send out.
Open the pack and press “Share this pack”.
Copy the link.
Send it where your onboarding already lives: the document for a new hire, the team channel, an email to a contractor.
An employee can open the link straight away; registration is needed only to take the terms for themselves.
The “Share this pack” panel
Share this pack
The link opens the pack for whoever you give it to – even if they have no account yet.
The pack is not published: people with the link will see it, but the library search will not find it.
The pack “Supply and contracts” as an employee sees it
15 wordswith a text
Supply and contracts
The terms that turn up in correspondence with suppliers and in our contracts.
Pack tagsB2logisticslegal
Text
Before a leaves the , the must issue an and confirm that every item matches the agreed .
Nothing is produced until we send a . The fixes the price, and the tells us when to expect delivery.
Any has to be reported to the account manager, who will it if the is at risk.
The say what happens next. A missed delivery counts as a , our is limited to the order value, and the client can ask us to the shipping costs.
The words of the pack occur in this text – so there is something for them to hold on to.
Words in the packTap a word and the card opens in full.
invoice[ˈɪnvɔɪs]
an invoice – the document a supplier issues for a delivery
Synonymsbill
ExamplesThe invoice is due within 30 days.
Word tagslogistics
shipment[ˈʃɪpmənt]
a consignment – what is sent in one go
Synonymsconsignment
ExamplesThe shipment left the warehouse on Monday.
Word tagslogistics
warehouse[ˈweəhaʊs]
a warehouse – the building where goods are kept
Synonymsstorage
ExamplesEverything is kept in the main warehouse.
Word tagslogistics
supplier[səˈplaɪə]
a supplier – the one who supplies you with goods or a service
Synonymsvendor
ExamplesWe work with three suppliers in Europe.
Word tagslogistics
specification[ˌspesɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
a specification – the agreed description of what exactly is supplied
Synonymsspec
ExamplesEvery item must match the specification.
Word tagslogistics
purchase order[ˈpɜːtʃəs ˈɔːdə]
a purchase order – the document by which you formally place an order
SynonymsPO
ExamplesSend us a purchase order before we ship.
Word tagslogistics
lead time[ˈliːd taɪm]
lead time – how long it takes from the order to the delivery
ExamplesThe lead time is four weeks.
Word tagslogistics
delay[dɪˈleɪ]
a delay – when something happens later than it should
Synonymshold-up
ExamplesAny delay must be reported at once.
Word tagslogistics
escalate[ˈeskəleɪt]
to pass a question upwards when it cannot be settled at your level
ExamplesWe escalate the issue if nobody replies.
Word tagsprocess
deadline[ˈdedlaɪn]
the last moment by which something has to be done
Synonymscut-off
ExamplesThe deadline is the end of the quarter.
Word tagsprocess
terms[tɜːmz]
the terms of a contract – what exactly you agreed on
Synonymsconditions
ExamplesThe payment terms are net 30.
Word tagslegal
breach[briːtʃ]
a breach of contract – when a party has not met a condition
Synonymsviolation
ExamplesA late delivery is a breach of contract.
Word tagslegal
liability[ˌlaɪəˈbɪləti]
liability – what a party answers for with money
ExamplesLiability is limited to the order value.
Word tagslegal
reimburse[ˌriːɪmˈbɜːs]
to reimburse – to give back the money that was spent
Synonymsrefund
ExamplesWe will reimburse the shipping costs.
Word tagslegal
quotation[kwəʊˈteɪʃn]
a commercial offer with a price
Synonymsquote
ExamplesTheir quotation was valid for ten days.
Word tagslogistics
This demo is live: tap a highlighted word in the text and its card pops up; tap a card in the list and it opens in full. The action buttons do nothing here.
A new employee’s first week
The terms stop being explained one at a time in correspondence.
Day one. A link to the “Supply and contracts” pack – in the document for new hires or in the team channel.
They open it without registering and see the terms in a working text rather than in a column.
They press “Take the pack” – the words are copied into their dictionary.
From then on the schedule works: every term comes back to them before it fades.
How to keep it up
Terminology changes: a release ships, a contractor is replaced, a process is renamed. The dictionary is edited not card by card but as a whole – through a file.
Export the dictionary, give the bot a task (bring the definitions to one form, add examples, rename a tag across the whole dictionary, add terms from the new documentation) and load the file back. The word, definition, tags, synonyms, examples and transcription are editable; an empty id creates a new term, empty fields delete it.
The “Sync” section
1Export
A file of the current dictionary. It carries the ids by which the app recognises the words when they come back.
2Upload the edited file
Before anything is applied, you see exactly what will change.
Drop the file herethe dictionary JSON or a CSV of words
What the employee has
The terms they take land in their own dictionary, and from then on have their own schedule and their own statistics. They stay with the person even after a move to another project: words are copied for good, and your edits to the pack do not break their dictionary. If they would rather not mix work vocabulary with their own, they start a separate dictionary for it – that is their choice, not your setting.
An employee’s statistics for the work dictionary
318terms
54learning
240learned
91%accuracy
What KYW does not do
Plainly, so that it does not come out after the rollout: there is no admin panel in KYW, no per-employee reports, no single sign-on and no corporate billing. Employees’ accounts are not tied to yours, and you cannot see their progress from your own screen.
Progress is visible only the way it is for everyone: the account header has a “Share a link” button – it opens without signing in and shows the numbers, but not the words.
What it gives you
The company vocabulary is collected in one place instead of living in heads and correspondence.
A new person gets it by a link on the first day, not one term a month.
The terms stay in memory after the onboarding is over.
Updating the terminology is one export and one import, not editing a hundred cards.
An employee can keep work vocabulary apart from their own English – those are different dictionaries in their account.
Build your team’s dictionary
The trial account opens the whole app without registration: how a pack is built, how it looks through a link and what a new employee sees.
Changes in the trial account are not kept – it is built anew at every entry. To keep your dictionaries, words and packs you need an account of your own: registration is free and takes a minute.
KYW – A spaced-repetition trainer for your own words